The opening match of the Lanka Premier League-2023 (LPL) cricket tournament will start today (30) night in Colombo.
It is a special thing that this year’s Sri Lankan Premier League champion’s trophy has been prepared by mixing metals obtained from the recycling and melting of discarded aluminium cans.
Through the “Beautiful Beach” program of the Melting Point Project, which has been implemented for about 3 years across the country, these wonderful designs have been made by collecting aluminium cans that have been informally disposed of on the beach and taking them by train to the Pirimathalawa factory where aluminium is turned into liquid.
This project has already succeeded in recycling such discarded metal items and making amazing designs, and it also claims a large market demand for these products at home and abroad.
However, 2532 aluminium cans that were dumped on the beach have been used to create the champions’ trophy of this year’s LPL tournament.
This will be the only trophy in the world to be gifted to the world of international cricket, crafted from recycled metal with unique Sri Lankan carvings crafted by the hands of amazing designers.
The opening match of the Lanka Premier League-2023 (LPL) cricket tournament will start today (30) at 7.30 pm at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
It is between the Jaffna Kings team and the Colombo Strikers team.
The Jaffna Kings are led by Thisara Perera while the Colombo Strikers are led by Niroshan Dickwella.
These two teams are the previous champions and runners-up respectively.
Many foreign players who are going to participate in the tournament have already arrived in the island.
They have started training since the last two days.
The LPL tournament is being held for the 4th time this year.
The Jaffna Kings team became the champions on all the last three occasions.
5 teams will participate in the tournament.
The tournament will be held in two stages, the preliminary round and the knockout round.
The preliminary round starts today and is scheduled to end on August 15.
The final round will begin on August 17.
Out of the 20 matches in the preliminary round, 12 matches will be played in Colombo R. Premadasa Stadium, and 8 matches will be held at Pallekele Stadium in Kandy.
All matches in the final round will be held at R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.
The tournament includes 8 days in which two matches will be played in one day in the preliminary round.
The top four teams in the preliminary round points table qualify for the final round.
The top two teams in the points table will compete against each other.
The team that wins the match will be directly selected for the finals.
Then the two teams who occupy the third and fourth place in the points table will compete against each other.
The team that wins that match will play against the team that lost the first match (which was between the first and second teams in the points table).
The winning team qualifies for the finals.
